This paper presents a project of the National Audit Office of Colombia (Contraloría General de la República; CGR) to experiment with possibilities of societal control systems as a fundamental element to implement mechanisms to control the activities of State agencies. The paper describes the activities initiated to develop an experiment in a particular locality, the municipality of Sahagún in the Department of Córdoba. We also try to expound historical circumstances and background related to participatory schemes in Colombian society, as